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Book publishing, digital marketing

I am a 50-year veteran of the book publishing business. For the last 25 years I've been one of the industry thought leaders about "digital change", speaking and blogging about the topic regularly. So my "expertise" is books, not energy and not climate. But my concern about climate change has motivated me to rearrange my business life to enable spending time to work on what I see as humankind's existential challenge.

Recent Posts by Mike Shatzkin

• No, nuclear power is not actually 'dangerous’
• Carbon Tax: Barriers and Solutions

Recent Comments by Mike Shatzkin

• "Yes, I totally agree. The life-cycle waste for wind and solar is almost certainly more destructive and difficult to manage than the waste from nuclear"
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "Indeed, these are the unmentioned elephants in the room for ALL the aspirational renewables conversations. Calculating the "cost" of wind and solar wi"
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "In general, they are not taken nearly seriously enough. I thought it was particularly ironic that Shellenberger was making the argument that things ha"
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "I want to add my voice to those thanking Congressman Deutch for HR 763 and urging its passage. I think it is essential that we have a carbon-pricing m"
  Time for a Price on Carbon
• "I want to echo the support for carbon-fee-and-dividend for a reason not mentioned. The proposed rates of carbon taxing come nowhere NEAR covering the "
  A Framework for The Green Real Deal
• "I agree completely that carbon-fee-and-dividend, taxing fossil fuels for the CO2 they will emit when burned and then returning ALL the money in equal "
  Principles for National Climate Action
• "Any ostensible "solution" to climate change that a) doesn't acknowledge the power and necessity of carbon-fee-and-dividend, or even entertain the idea"
  The Green New Deal and Economic Security
• "The question of what is "economically sound" arises when owners of nuclear power plants shut them because they can't make money running them. Every ti"
  A Realistic Strategy For Climate Change
• "I agree with this, but I would add that the ONLY way we will get a sustained and increasing and powerful price signal is if the revenues from taxing c"
  A Realistic Strategy For Climate Change
• "Almost completely agree with Dan. Except once this concept is implemented, the fee will actually go up faster because the majority will make money on "
  After Two Defeats in Washington State, Where Next For A Carbon Tax?